Mond Sees New Prosperity for Palestine when Jewish Agency Begins to Function

A new era of prosperity for Palestine when the reconstruction work will have been reorganized under the auspices of the Jewish Agency, was predicted by Sir Alfred Mond in a statement made yesterday before press representatives here.

The work of rebuilding Palestine should run along business lines and it should aim to attract capital which can make profits in Palestine as elsewhere. The Jewish Agency survey will bring out all of the country’s possibilities and Palestine will afterwards see a great improvement. Owing to the philanthropic system which has been employed until recently, Jewish capitalists have hesitated to invest in Palestine, he stated.

Practically, Sir Alfred added, there is no crisis in Palestine. Unemployment is decreasing, agriculture, particularly the wine and orange industries, is making progress. The number of factories functioning and workers employed is almost as great today as it was in 1925.

The development of Palestine would be impossible without a harbor and without modern transportation facilities. Both of these will be provided by the planned Haifa harbor, Sir Alfred stated.

Jerusalem, Feb. 2.–Two Jews were among the 253 immigrants who entered Palestine during December, according to official figures published here.

No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel -
David Ben Gurion
(David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State's main founder).
"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel.
No Jew has the authority to do so.
No Jewish body has the authority to do so.
Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.
It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under
no conditions can be cancelled.
Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations.
No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People. Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."
(David Ben Gurion, Zionist Congress, Basel, Switzerland, 1937.)
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